42, Fore Street is a Grade II listed building in the Ipswich local planning authority area, England. First listed on 15 December 1977. House.
42, Fore Street
- WRENN ID
- twelfth-ember-amber
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Ipswich
- Constituency
- Ipswich MP: Jack Abbott (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 15 December 1977
- Type
- House
- OS grid reference
- TM 167 442
- Coordinates
- 52.0539, 1.15987
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
No. 42 on Fore Street is a timber-framed and plastered house, likely originating from the 17th century, though it has undergone significant alterations in the 18th and 19th centuries. The building has two storeys and attics. The first storey was probably jettied at the front but was underbuilt in the 19th century. It features a single window range with a double-hung sash that includes glazing bars. The roof is tiled and has one flat-headed dormer.
Local climate
42, Fore Street sits in one of the driest parts of the UK, with an average of 690 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 96% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 63% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 22 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 77% of listed buildings. Of these, 11 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.3°C per decade since 1991.
Averages for 1991–2020; temperature trend 1991–2025. Figures describe the wider area (a grid cell of roughly 10 km), not the individual site. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026.
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